debian raid
 

Hi LQ!
I want to set a raid system on my debian lenny and i needed few infos:
i have 2 40GB hard disks , different model , a maxxtor and a samzung , one has a jumper on master the other has a junmper to make it slave (correct?) . I need this raid not to make backups but to make both a 80GB hard disk and i'm all right to partition the first hard disk like:
The second hard disk has to be all the /var directory , is this configuration possible ??? Thanks !

If you want them to be seperate why do you want to RAID them?

They can work together without raid than ! All i need to do is set the jumper on master on the first HD and on slave on the second , is that right ?

Yes, you can have disk 1 with three partitions (/boot, /, swap) and disk 2 with one partition (/var).

You have the jumpers right, as long as you get the cable right too. Or you can set both to "cable select." This is assuming that both are IDE drives, if they are SATA it doesn't apply.